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I'. C. HANNAHS.

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No. 388,130. Patented Aug. 21, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT Ormes.

FRED. C. HANNAHS, OF KENOSHA, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-IIALF TO JOHNSON A. JACKSON, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 338,130, dated August 21, 1888.

Application filed February 2, 1888. Serial No. 262,775.

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED. C. HANNAHS, of Kenosha, in the county of Kenosha and State of NVisconsin, have invented new and useful 5 Improvements in Cribs; and I do hereby de' clare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of said invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters or figures of reference marked ro hereon, which form a part of this specificaion.

My invention relates to the form, construction, and combination of parts of a crib or couch whereby a neat and substantial article of furniture is comparatively inexpensively constructed, and when so constructed is substantial and durable and is adjustable to serve as a high crib or couch or as a low bed.

Figure l is a plan of one side and a portion 2o of the ends of my improved crib, parts being broken away to show interior construction more perfectly. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of my improved crib, showing one leg partially folded to illustrate the method of changing the device from a high crib to a low bed. Figs. 3

and 5 are details. Fig. 4 shows my improvements as constructed in a couch.

The same letters refer to like parts in all the views.

The frame of the crib consists of two side rails, A A, and two end pieces, B B, on which a rail, C, entirely around the crib is supported on the spindlesD D. For putting the rails and end pieces together and securing them in position a round hole is bored near each end in each of the end pieces, B B, and a pin or tenon, E, projecting from each end of cach of the rails A A, is fitted and inserted in the aperture in the end piece up to a shoulder on 4o the rails at the inner end of the tenon. A

woven-wire mattress, F, or some flexible material of similar constructiomis secured firmly at each end to the end pieces, B B, whereby a bottom for the crib is formed and the end pieces are held securely on the rails A A. This method of constructing the body of the frame and securing it together sim ply by means of the woven-wire mattress-bottom is very easily and quickly accomplished and is comparatively inexpensive, while it forms a most (No model.)

strong and durable device. Fourlegs, G G- one at each cornerare pivoted in pairs of two at each end to the frame by means of a rod,H, inserted through an aperture in the top of the leg, which rod is inserted and supported at each end in the rails A A. The legs are secured together in pairs at cach end ofthe crib or couch by one or more rounds, I l, inserted therein. These legs in pairs,as described, are supported pivotally on the rods H II and are 6o adapted to fold inwardly against the bottoni ofthe frame of the crib in the manner indicated at the right in Fig. 2. For convenience of movement each of the legs is provided at its lower end with a caster, J. '.lwo elastic 65 barsone at each side-preferably of wood, are each secured centrally to the rails A A, their free ends forming the brace and stay rods K K. These brace-rods K K are secured together at each end of the crib by means of a cross- 7o bar, L. These rods K K are locatedjust within and alongside of the rails A A, and their ends are close along the outside of the legs G G, and these brace-rods are each constructed with a shoulder, M, adapted to engage with a pin, O, fixed in the post Cr, whereby, when the post is arranged vertically, lthe shoulder M is in engagement with the pin O and the rods K K become stayrods to hold the legs in vertical position,as well as braces to steady 8c them. For convenience in disengaging the stay-rods K K from the pins O O, I provide a little metal lever or cam, P, pivoted on the pin O and having an outwardly-projccting flange, R, along its lower edge adapted to be borne down against the rod K and carry it downwardly far enough to disengage the shoulder M from the piu O, whereby the legs G Gr are released and may be folded up against the frame. go

The erossbars L L are cach provided with two casters, S S, which are adapted to serve as feet,upon which the device may stand when the legs are folded up and it is being used as a bed. Vhen the legs G G are folded up, the brace-rods K K spring upwardly and the cross bars L L come in contact with pins T T, inserted in the rails A A, which pins T T, so rigidly inserted in and projecting inwardly from the rails A A, then rest on the ends of roo the crossbars L L, whereby the frame is sup! ported on these cross-bars and their caster-` feet. This form of construction,in which the crib is adapted to rest and be supported on the cross-bars L L, is very convenient when it is desirable to fold up the legs G G and lower the body of the crib near to the floor, whereby it occupies less space in such condition and can be pushed beneath a table or lother furniture, where it would not go if it was supported on the upright legs G G.

. It will be seen by reference to Fig. 4 that niy improvements are as well adapted for use in a couch asin the more particularly described crib.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The frame of a crib or couch andthe thereto-hinged legs G G, adapted to be held in position as legs by elastic bracerods K K, in

' combination with the cross-bars L L, su pported on brace-rods K K and bearing against the pins T 'Land the casters SS, adapted to serve as feet for the crib when the legs are folded 

